26 Quotes by Arthur Wallis

I feel very happy since the Lord called me to step out in faith, and I obeyed. The Lord is our inexhaustible treasure.

God reminds His people that the acceptable fast is the one which He has chosen. Fasting, like prayer, must be God-initiated and God-ordained if it is to be effective.

On our part there must be the recognition of the rightness and need of fasting, the willingness for the self-discipline involved, and the exercise of heart before God; but in the final analysis the initiative is His.

If you have been brought low through personal defeat; if there is a call in your soul to a deeper purifying, to a renewed consecration; if there is the challenge of some new task for which you feel ill-equipped – then it is time to inquire of God whether He would not have you separate yourself unto Him in fasting.

In the fasting for personal sanctity, we must also include the positive aspect of consecration to God.

Then there will be times when we shall forget the matter of our personal gain, when we shall be caught up in wonder, love and praise, as we fast unto God.

His heart was being prepared for further blessing God had for him.

Mourning over personal sin and failure is an indispensable stage in the process of sanctification, and it is facilitated by fasting.